Monthly Obama Forum Approval - October 2009

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Somewhat approve

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Unchanged from somewhat approve.

Btw, what was the end results for September?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Unchanged from somewhat approve.

Btw, what was the end results for September?

Strongly Approve   16 (22.5%)
Somewhat Approve   20 (28.2%)
Undecided   3 (4.2%)
Somewhat Disapprove   11 (15.5%)
Strongly Disapprove   21 (29.6%)
 
Total Voters: 71

[Lunar]

Somewhat disapprove.  Obama's veered away from his campaign viewpoints that I liked the best and veered towards the ones I liked the least.

And, after the Democrats lose their super majority in 2010, he'll be even less able to do the right thing...at least it seems that way

[Devilman88]

Strongly Disapprove.

[tmthforu94]

Strongly Disapprove.

[k-onmmunist]

Strongly Disapprove.

Me too.

But I accidentally voted Somewhat Dissapprove -.-

Please put them in descending order next time.

[Eraserhead]

Somewhat approve

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Somewhat Approve.

[ChrisJG777]

Somewhat approve.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Strongly Disapprove

[Nhoj]

Somewhat disapprove he has done little on civil liberties front which is where my most strong opinions are.

[jamestroll]

Strongly Disapprove

^^^^

he is horrible!

[fezzyfestoon]

Once again, to those who approve, what has he done that is worthy of approval?  I really do want to know.

[k-onmmunist]

Once again, to those who approve, what has he done that is worthy of approval?  I really do want to know.

He is a Democrat. That warrants immediate approval in their eyes.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Once again, to those who approve, what has he done that is worthy of approval?  I really do want to know.

Sometimes "do no harm" is worth approving of.    The recession is ending, and one could argue it would naturally end anyway......so he hasn't harmed its ending even if you don't think he helped it end.

Also, I find a huge difference in "tone" when it comes to foreign affairs, which I like somewhat.  I'm satisfied with US/Russia relations (removing the defense shield idea helped) but you can never fully trust the Russians.   He's making nice nice with the Chinese which most Presidents have done because they own a lot of us.  He's taking a hard line privately with Israel I believe which is good because we can't have them go rogue.


We're having a good conversation on health care because it does need reformed, but I just hope we end up with a good bill.......but I'm not that hopeful.

Overall.......don't screw it up or do no {more} harm is worth somewhat approval.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Still Strongly disapprove (although didn't you switch strongly and somewhat disapprove on the poll - they're backwards).

[Lief 🗽]

Once again, to those who approve, what has he done that is worthy of approval?  I really do want to know.

-Banned CIA torture
-Set strict ethics rules for executive branch employees
-Ended the Mexico City Policy
-Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
-SCHIP expansion, giving 4 million more children health insurance
-The stimulus bill, which though flawed, has managed to keep unemployment lower than it would have been without government stimulus, and will update and rebuild American infrastructure
-Lifted ban on embryonic stem cell research
-Nominated a smart, qualified, not-insane judge to the Supreme Court
-Began the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, which will continue through August 2010
-A renewed focus on diplomacy, international institutions, and cooperation and dialogue with allies and adversaries
-Delivered a historic, first of its kind speech in a major Muslim city
-Overturned a Bush administration policy that would have opened up offshore drilling
-Cash for clunkers program, an effective, popular government program
-Increased executive branch transparency

And a health care bill of some sort will be passed in a few weeks. A cap and trade bill has already been passed in the House and is now in the Senate.

He's not perfect, I'll be the first to admit that. But the idea that he hasn't accomplished anything is ridiculous.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Once again, to those who approve, what has he done that is worthy of approval?  I really do want to know.

-Banned CIA torture
-Set strict ethics rules for executive branch employees
-Ended the Mexico City Policy
-Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
-SCHIP expansion, giving 4 million more children health insurance
-The stimulus bill, which though flawed, has managed to keep unemployment lower than it would have been without government stimulus, and will update and rebuild American infrastructure
-Lifted ban on embryonic stem cell research
-Nominated a smart, qualified, not-insane judge to the Supreme Court
-Began the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, which will continue through August 2010
-A renewed focus on diplomacy, international institutions, and cooperation and dialogue with allies and adversaries
-Delivered a historic, first of its kind speech in a major Muslim city
-Overturned a Bush administration policy that would have opened up offshore drilling
-Cash for clunkers program, an effective, popular government program
-Increased executive branch transparency

And a health care bill of some sort will be passed in a few weeks. A cap and trade bill has already been passed in the House and is now in the Senate.

He's not perfect, I'll be the first to admit that. But the idea that he hasn't accomplished anything is ridiculous.

I forgot about the stem cell ban being lifted.......very important in my view

[fezzyfestoon]

Ah, thank you guys.  It's kind of hard to keep up over here.  Definitely sounds like a supreme improvement over the last 8 years.  Hopefully things keep moving in this direction.  I know what people disapprove of and approve of now, and I think I fall in the approval column so far.  Part of that is relative approval, but still, it's important to at least move in the right direction even if only a little bit.  I am still kind of annoyed about the wars and lack of action on energy though.  And there's a lot of legalization I'd like to see happen that I doubt will.

[Torie]

Somewhat disapprove. I am not too happy that the numbers are being cooked on the health care issue, and Obama's pushing of the public option, and what now seems to me at this juncture to be excessive spending on a host of matters, that I think will cause rather severe inflation down the road.  (Load up on those fixed interest rate mortgages folks that are cheap because the government is subsidizing them (yes like it is seemingly subsidizing near everything else, often on a non means tested basis), by virtue of having the agencies it controls buy them, when no one else in their right mind would.)

I am pleased that he is thinking through carefully Afghanistan, and am not pleased that he has the slows in acting on his promise or quasi promise to dump don't ask, don't tell.  However, Obama certainly has the potential over time to cause me to move him up to the somewhat approve category depending on how these issues play out.

[k-onmmunist]

I just hate the way he's setting it all up for another recession in three years.

[Democratic Hawk]

Strongly Approve

[CPT MikeyMike]

Strongly Disapprove

[JSojourner]

Somewhat approve

This, basically.